By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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Sacha @sachanotess.bsky.social Bilingual poet · English & Spanish 🖋️
THE COLLECTION: Volume 1 — out now
One voice, two tongues
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@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
Haley Souders @haley-souders.bsky.social Writer
Emerson College ‘23
BGSU ‘25
📍Pittsburgh
Dr. Mohan Prasad Joshi @mohan-prasad-joshi.bsky.social Awareness • Silence • Nature • Poetry • Spirituality
MD, MSc • Former Professor & Global AMR Consultant
Author of A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death
Photos/videos/GIFs are original & shot by me (except RTs)
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Patricia Ann McNair @pattymcnair.bsky.social Pens. Coffee. Good journals. World peace. Gritty stories. Science. Democracy. Nutty bars. Cats. Cacti. A few of my favorite things. BOTYA: THE TEMPLE OF AIR. Resident of Spain.
Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social Flee, all is discovered.
By @tanaudel.bsky.social. Automated, not AI. Same as old code, but via @bluebotsdonequick.com (so won't exactly mirror legacy posts).
Gothic (and other) art at tanaudel.redbubble.com
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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social I write, read, enjoy good beer, spend time with my humans & cat, and try to hold pockets of hope where I find it.
Defend marginalized people. Trust science. Mask up.
M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
Jem Webster @jemwebster.bsky.social Chair of English at Ohio University: Restoration & 18thC British Literature, drama, queer bibliography, manuscript satire. Other interests: Thai BL, cats, cocktails, and Star Wars (but only the good ones)
Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social flash writer | educator | computer & application techie | kitchen witch | long-distance runner🏃🏼♀️👟
Words in Emerge Literary (Pushcart nominated), HAD, Flash Flood, Sudden Flash, Painted Pebble Lit
I typically only follow writers.
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Jordana Greene - Writer (Pen name) @jordanagreene.bsky.social Tree-hugging, happily wed #cat lover #dystopian #poetry #romance #scifi #fantasy #climatechange #BLM #writingcommunity
POETRY book coming. 1st Indie dystopian novel available on KU. Trad pub under 2 other names.
NO CHAT MSGS
Ages of Aeon @iancaton.bsky.social Here for the dronemusic, poetry & shitposts. And I’m all out of shitposts.
Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.
Sarah Jane Cody is semi here @sarahjanecody.bsky.social 📖 Writer. Words: Gulf Coast, The Common, Electric Lit, Cincinnati Review, Joyland, & more. Bathrobe Gal webcomic. 👋 autistic. Rep: Jess Regel. Former Asst. Editor Pigeon Pages. she/her.
sarahjanecody.com
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Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Michael Lee Bross @nocturnalmask.bsky.social Poet | Writer |Trauma Survivor | ADHD Fireworks Display | Parent| Library | Professor | He/Him
Website: https://www.mleebross.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/michaelleebross
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Lori Jones @lorijonespoetry.bsky.social Dreamer. Artist. Poet.
(she/her)
My debut poetry collection, The Sweetening, is available now.
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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social She/Her. Writer in Rochester, NY.
Coeditor of Gone Lawn.
www.caitlinohalloran.com
Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Brandon Getz @brandongetz.bsky.social weird fiction & sci-fi writer // LARS BREAXFACE: WEREWOLF IN SPACE (novel) // STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (stories) // he/him // Pittsburgh
brandongetz.com
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social World Fantasy Award finalist. She. No AI
In Brian Froud's Green Women: bit.ly/4cOoxUT
The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v
Patreon posts (free): https://www.patreon.com/cw/kitwhitfield
Rep: Sophie Hicks
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Damien Cowger @damiencowger.bsky.social Managing Editor at New Ohio Review | Writer | Photographer
damiencowger.com
Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.
Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social Animals/TV/film/history/fiction, and any odd nook where they collide. Debut fiction HORSE SHOW 🐴 out NOW from Santa Fe Writers Project!
she/her, phd
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social Author of fantasy novels about language nerds, dragonslayers, and roaming geologists. Most recent book: The Map and the Territory. Pronouns are xie or zie/hir.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/amtuomala
Website: https://amtuomala.com/
@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social 
Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social Writer of sff + comics.
Rearranging words for a living since 2013.
he/him
Mailing list: https://eepurl.com/Zviqn
Also found at andrewknighton.com
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social Editor & Writer | Recovering entertainment journo | Unbreaking.org editor | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, druid, cool aunt, nature & conservation | Find me among the trees 🌿🌲/|\ https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso
Becky Tuch @beckyltuch.bsky.social Fiction & nonfiction writer, Founder of Lit Mag News
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
Jasper Fforde @jasperfforde.bsky.social Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social Science fiction writer, poet, essayist, Minnesota. She/her. A DUBIOUS CLAMOR from Horned Lark Press 15 SEPTEMBER 2026! THAT FATAL DISCONTENT from Union Square Books Summer 2027! Repped by Kurestin Armada.
www.marissalingen.com
tinyletter.com/MarissaLingen
The Skiffy and Fanty Show @skiffyandfanty.com SF/F/H podcast (interviews, discussions, Torture Cinema, etc.)! 4X Hugo Award Finalist!
Live on Twitch: FRIDAY 7 PM Central
twitch.tv/alphabetstreams
Site: skiffyandfanty.com
Patreon: patreon.com/skiffyandfanty
Things: skiffyandfanty.com/skiffythings
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com Fan Writer.
@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social Editor (HUGO WINNER)
@skiffyandfanty.com
& much more!
Part of @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid.
AH #Photography at @laworldcon.bsky.social
Podcaster.#ttrpg I'm just this guy, you know? He/him
Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social Bestselling, award winning writer, editor, film producer, podcaster, and showrunner. Board of Directors for Scares That Care charity.
Ronald McGillvray @ronaldmcgillvray.bsky.social A Writer of Horror, the Strange and the Mysterious.
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Dirge Magazine @dirgemagazine.com The cultural feverdream that walks like a magazine. 2014-2017, 2025+
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore us.
https://dirgemagazine.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/CNR6KVAQSs
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Helen Mask 🔜SanJapan🔜RCCC 🔜oddities expo Vegas @hemask.bsky.social Art Nouveau Illustrator/ they/them / PDX
Available for freelance work
Email: thehemask@gmail.com
www.helenmask.com
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Kiersten White @kierstenwhite.bsky.social #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning tortoise owner
Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
Ciera McElroy @cieramcelroy.bsky.social Novelist, Film Marketer. If literature, faith, and pop culture had a group chat, I’d be in it.
Dave Essinger @dave-essinger.bsky.social Author of Running Out and This World and the Next from Main Street Rag, Faculty at U of Findlay, Editor of Slippery Elm. Wittier on Strava. https://dave-essinger.com/- B Brenda Peynado @brendapeynado.bsky.social Mother, Weirdo, Author of THE ROCKEATERS and forthcoming TIME'S AGENT. Rep'd Michelle Brower @ Trellis Literary
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social the littl shynin man the Addom, he runs in the wud
pavora @pavora.bsky.social 🖤Drawer
🖤🔞 sometimes NSFW, babies begone
🖤Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/pavora
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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social poet (Autoplay & Rules for Rearrangement) winner of a book prize + a 3rd grade talent show. UM Lecturer. Cofounding editor @ publicschoolpoetry.com/ juliebabcockwrites.com
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social Community geographer, cartographer, pedestrian, cyclist. Author of "The New American Small Town: Lessons for sustainable urban futures" (West Virginia University Press, June 2025). https://communitygeography.kent.edu/
Allison P. Brown @apbrown.bsky.social Digital Publishing Services Manager @ State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo
editing | design | pedagogy | poetry
Jen Karner @articulatedream.bsky.social Award Winning Author of queer horror & fantasy || Feral forest queer & book gremlin || Probably a crow in cosplay || Bone enthusiast, spooky bitch, and feminist banshee || she/they || JenKarner.carrd.co
Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Tasavvur Magazine @tasavvurnama.bsky.social We publish #SouthAsian #SciFi #Fantasy & #Horror short stories 👁🌌
🚀 Issue 016 is out!
👇🏻Submissions Open
https://linktr.ee/tasavvurnama
Jen Popa @jenpopa.bsky.social Writer. Keeper of a small flock of animals. Eldest daughter feasting exclusively on a diet of low-hanging fruit. A “pick me” but for dogs.
https://jenniferpopa.com
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social I got into this HVAC game for the action.
@sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social Novelist and freelance editor. Drinks a lot of tea.
Published by Portland Press.
sarahhealeyeditor.com
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social An Ignyte and Shirley Jackson award-winning magazine and podcast of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors & artists. Issue 6.2 is out now!
https://linktr.ee/khoreomag
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC Social Media. #SGSAH PhD. #StrathLife
Queer Neurodivergent with Chronic Illness.
Stories and more: https://linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social Est. 1986, GSFWC is a critique workshop for writers of fantastical literature based in Scotland.
Official website, anthologies and more: https://linktr.ee/gsfwc
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncriticaleditions
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/ 
Margaret Wack @mhwack.bsky.social Poet & tea enthusiast
margaretwack.com
The Paper Cat Bookshop @papercatbookshop.bsky.social Now online with a brick-and-mortar store opening in Tucson, AZ, we're a women-owned, independent bookstore with new and used books in a space that encourages curiosity and promotes equity. Learn more at PaperCatBookshop.com!